2025 Resolution: Bootstrap a Startup with a Paycheck to Go From Developer to Entrepreneur

Are you thinking of starting a venture alone in 2025? Fred Luddy founded ServiceNow as a Solo Entrepreneur Bootstrapping with a Paycheck. Today, ServiceNow is one of history’s most successful SaaS companies.

2025 Resolution: Bootstrap a Startup with a Paycheck and 1Mby1M

We are in 2025. Hundreds of thousands of tech businesses have already been built successfully. Let’s learn from those who have come before us. Girish Navani started eClinicalWorks, a healthcare IT venture by bootstrapping with a paycheck. Girish scaled to over $500M in revenue.

2025 Resolution: Bootstrap a Startup with a Paycheck

Do you need an inspirational story to start 2025? Fred Luddy started ServiceNow, a Multi-Billion Dollar Unicorn, as a solo entrepreneur bootstrapping with a paycheck.

2025 Resolution: Fix Your Startup TAM to Be Fundable

What are your 2025 priorities? Is becoming fundable among them? Total Addressable Market (TAM) is critical for any new product or service. Why? Because TAM makes or breaks a startup’s Strategy and, as a result, its Fundability.

2025 Resolution: Find an Effective Mentor to Make Your Startup Fundable

As a startup mentor, I always think about how I can make the most impact. These days, everyone claims to be a startup mentor. Whether they have ever done a startup or raised money, they are ready to give advice on how to raise money. Most of the advice you get this way is blind

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2025 Resolution: Get Meaningful Investor Introductions for Your Startup

If you are looking for investor introductions, you have to be READY. What does it mean to be READY? Being READY means you need to be able to tell a credible story to defend a high velocity revenue growth investment thesis.

2025 Resolution: Make VCs Chase YOU to Fund Your Startup

Please post this on your wall in 2025: “Startups: Do NOT Go to VCs as Beggars. Go as Kings.” This is the 1Mby1M mantra and it works. Over 99% of founders chase funding before they are fundable.

2025 Resolution: Bootstrap to $1 Million Revenue with Your Startup

Can you hit $1M+ in Revenue in 2025? In working through the current landscape of our industry, a few trends become evident: A large percentage of VCs are chasing Unicorns. Too much money chasing too few deals capable of delivering hyper growth bids up valuations. Many Death by Overfunding tragedies have emerged.